The challenges that retailers have faced in the past few years have been nearly biblical in size and scope. • The unstoppable rise of ecommerce, driven by voracious competitor Amazon, has siphoned revenue growth from competitors great and small, and forced every...

For years, Burger King was the sick man of the quick service restaurant industry. A perennial laggard to McDonald’s in scale, the company was also widely seen as hamstrung by poor execution, a revolving door of leadership (Joe Nocera noted in 2012 that the company...

Few endeavors are more challenging than an organizational turnaround, in large part because an organization undergoing a turnaround must work first against its own prior failures, and only then attack external impediments to success. Failed strategies must be...

“Too much knowing is misery.” – Lorenzo de Medici By David Johnson | @TurnaroundDavid The Corporate Takeover of the Red Cross (ProPublica): Despite support from the U.S. government, a proud history of aiding people in the midst of crisis, and the advantage of...

“Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.” ― Benjamin Disraeli By David Johnson | @TurnaroundDavid Yahoo Board, Sticking by Mayer, to Decide on Spinoff by End of Weekend (Recode): Three years into the tenure of CEO Marissa Mayer,...